Re: [gtk-list] Re: continue execution while updating a progress bar? (now thoughts on an Xinstall)

[<nuke bayside net>]

On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, HaqR Angel wrote:

> nuke@bayside.net wrote:
> > 
> > well actually, i was aiming more for a "gmake" or "gnomake" which would
> > pop up a filebox and let you chooke a Makefile. it would then list all the
> > jobs it's going to perform, and show their progress in status bars. once i
> > figure this out, my first priority will be to do just a GUI Make.
> > somethine more complicated like that will take extra help (any
> > volunteers?)
> 
> Perhaps also have some way of parsing for alternate "makes;" eg, for the
> Linux kernel, there's make dep, make clean, make install, make boot, and
> so forth; is there a semi-reliable way to parse these out and display a
> menu?

well, that's trivial. the hard part is having Make run while i'm updating
the toolbar.
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